Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

attached is a gzip'ed tar file containing a modified /etc/fancontrol configuration file and a diff to generate a modified /usr/[local/]sbin/fancontrol..
some things i added are:
- multiple sensors per output
now you can have a fan controlled by lets say, 4 averaged or maximized coretemp readings instead of 1 cpu case temp sensor..
- "peak/hold" like operation
instead of fancontrol maxing out and idling fans on intermittent loads, the last highest pwm value is held on to for a specified amount of seconds..

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

I've been trying to lower my power fan speed for a few hours now and I can't seem to crack it. I followed the guide and I get hung up on the pwmconfig command which gives me the "There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed" message. I have a fintek super I/O chip. I was stumbling around and found this on the lm-sensors web site. Here's the url: http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2332

That seems to be what i need, however it refers to a .patch file. How does it work. It appears to have html code in it. I'm CONFUSED... Hardware sensors are loaded and working as the hardware sensors applet is running and gives me cpu, gpu, hdd temps and cpu, and system fan speeds. I just can't seem to adjust them. (I bought an aftermarket CPU fan that is rated at just over 1 AMP and it's running at 3350 RPM which is kinda loud. I'd like to run it at half that .

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

Originally Posted by Nerevar144

I've been trying to lower my power fan speed for a few hours now and I can't seem to crack it. I followed the guide and I get hung up on the pwmconfig command which gives me the "There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed" message. I have a fintek super I/O chip. I was stumbling around and found this on the lm-sensors web site. Here's the url: http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2332

That seems to be what i need, however it refers to a .patch file. How does it work. It appears to have html code in it. I'm CONFUSED... Hardware sensors are loaded and working as the hardware sensors applet is running and gives me cpu, gpu, hdd temps and cpu, and system fan speeds. I just can't seem to adjust them. (I bought an aftermarket CPU fan that is rated at just over 1 AMP and it's running at 3350 RPM which is kinda loud. I'd like to run it at half that .

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

Hi!

I did not want to set up new topic.

My mb has option that can automatically control fan speed, but rpm's are too high, so I want to decrease them. I also can use lm-sensors to do that, but if I start fancontrol and stop it, my fan is on max speed, I saw in script (/usr/sbin/fancontrol) part of code responsible for it:

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

if the BIOS fan control isn't slowing down the fan enough, you have a cooling issue, or just a noisy fan. forcing it to run slower is likely to cause too much heat and then CPU damage. Keep in mind that lm-sensors isn't always exactly calibrated and so the temps you see can be quite wrong.

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

I can't figure this thing out for the life of me. I went by a different install how-to because with it I gained control of my fan, though I use 'control' loosely. Right now my fan pulses and I have very little control over it. I can change the speed it spins to but not the speed it spins down to. ~4100 and 1900 respectively. It does not start on startup/reboot, I have to run:

Code:

sudo /usr/sbin/fancontrol

via terminal. I'm fine with that because at least I can turn it on at my discretion.

Take the modprobe lines it recommends and paste them into the appropriate /etc/rc.d/xxxx file to be executed at startup.

Then found "w83627hf" in "/etc/sensors.conf" and edit "set temp1_over 38" (line 512) and "set temp1_hyst 30" (line 513). Values prior where 50 and 37. I thought this would turn the fan on to a higher speed at a lower temp, seems not though.

Maybe the fan is supposed to pulse, kinda doubt it though. Being I haven't seen it work in person . . .

So what do you guys need so you can help me get this thing working properly?

(Wish it where nice and simple like Speedfan for Windows, set a speed and let it go, adjust on the fly as desired)

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

Can't figure out fancontrl, nothing works like the examples.
Can't figure out pwmconfig either, nothing works like the examples.

From another thread I tried:

Re: HOW TO: Install and configure lm-sensors
I've tried all of this and still nothing will allow me to kep the fans running on my Toshiba satellite laptop.

The lm-sensors and sensor-detect do not work as shown here on this particular laptop it seems.
I can't get the sensor-applet to run either. (It is installed but not in /usr/bin as is the sensors executable)

/etc/moduels file-
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

Oh, and also the things related to HOWTO Fix A Buggy DSDT File
If I decompile and recompile my DSDT file the only errors are related to some sort of warnings about line terminators, nothing in the code itself.

Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

I have an odd problem with lm-sensors. I add the module and so on, no problems there. Then I run pwmconfig (as sudo, otherwise is doesn't work), it tests two fans which I physically see stopping. Then when I setup the temperature configuration, and I get to the part when I have to setup the PWM values for minimum and maximum, I choose test (t).
But nothing happens, it sets the fan to 10 PWM, but it doesn't stop or slow down. So I tried setting all the values to 10 in the configuration and started the daemon, and it doesn't slow down the fans either.